Forehead-band.



' PATENTED MAY 21, 1907.

0. w. MABEY. FOREHEAD BAND.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1906.

WITNESSES WI/i 20 ATTORNEYS 1n: Nah I!!! PETERS rah .VASHINGYON, o. c.

FOREHEAD-BAND.

No. 854,509. Specification of Letters Patent.

-Applicatio11 filed July 20,1906. Serial No. 327,009.

Patented May 21, 1907.

To whom it y 007L067? The covering material 4 may be saturated Be it known that 1, CHARLES WV. MABEY, with chemicals of a character suitable to a citizen of the United States, and a resident relieve headache or insomnia, and such of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and chemicals are by means of such device adapt- State of Indiana, have invented a new and f ed to be drawnfrom the covering material Improved Forehead-Band, of which the fol by the heat of the forehead of the wearer. lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. The simplicity of the construction of this My invention has for its object to provide band enables one to wear the same with a means adapted to relieve a person of headache hat on, in any place, or at any time without and insomnia. This I accomplish by the inconvenience. means illustrated in the accompanying draw- I Having thus described my invention, what ings, in which drawings like characters of I claim as new and desire to secure by Letreference indicate like parts throughout the l ters Patent is: views, and in which i 1. The combination of a metallic band in- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device closed within a covering of absorbent mateembodying my invention applied to the head I rial and provided with off-set ends having of a user; Fig. 2 is a perspective view partly convex extremities, and an elastic band sebrolren away of a device embodying my ini cured thereto at its ends adapted'to hold said vention; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section metallic band against the forehead of a user taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. by elastic tension, substantially as shown and described.

As illustrated in the drawings, 1 represents ametalhc band constructed of flexible metal, 2. A forehead band comprising a longitudinal metallic plate having angularly depending ends and an elastic band secured to adapted to be curved longitudinally so as to conform to the shape of the forehead of a persaid ends, adapted to exert an elastic pres- I sure on the side of said forehead plate and to son. The ends 2 of the band are inclined encircle the head of a user in a plane below downwardly and the inner surface of such ends is formed with a convex projection 3 the central longitudinal plane of said plate, substantially as shown and described.

adapted to be pressed against the temples 3. A head band comprising a forehead of the user. These ends of the band are preferably made concavo-convex in cross section, as indicated in Fig. 3. An elastic plate consistingofalongitudinalband covered with absorbent material, and provided with ends extending at an angle to the longitucord 5 is connected with the convex ends 3 of the band. The band is covered by an abi dinal line of said plate, and a band connected with said ends and adapted to encircle the sorbent material 4 which may consist of a textile fabric or other material adapted to head of a user 111 a lane below the central lon itudinal hne of sald late.

absorb and retain chemical mixtures adapted In testimony whereof I have signed my to aid in relieving headache or insomnia.

hen the device 1s applied to the forehead name to this specification 1n the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

of a user the soft flexible nature of the me- CHARLES V. MABEY.

tallic band 1 permits the band to conform to i the contour of the users forehead, while the l downwardly extending arms 2 with the conl vex projections 3 bear against the temples of such user, and all the parts are held in place I with gentle pressure by means of the elastic cord or band 5 extending around the back of the users hea Witnesses S. A. CLINEHEWs, JOHN SoHoEN. 

